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Originally posted by Rudey
There is a difference between motives and history and I don't think you understand that.
Yes that would be an incredibly expensive area to just make into a memorial but at the same time, building there will NOT make this city into what it once was. People say that blindly. What was this city and what will that building bring?
-Rudey
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Thank you for calling me stupid in such a polite way, Rudey!
Seriously, I think we actually agree (sort of) about the building itself. I'm not a fan of "rebuild the towers bigger and better". That's just stupid. They were there, a tragedy happened, they are there no longer - nothing is going to change that or bring things back to the way they were. But we do need to add hotel space, living space, office space etc in that gaping hole that will bring money to that area. Tourists go down there all the time, stare at the hole, then hop the train back uptown to eat dinner and sleep at their hotels.
I really just disagree with the people (mostly victim families) who play up the "resting place" issue in an effort to keep the whole area as is. I mean, would they have preferred we never clean it up because there were human remains on the rubble? At this point, most of the actual resting place is gone anyway. Most people/remains weren't found at the underground level they have finally cleared it down to, right?